By Kristin Dykstra
Dissonance
The University of Chicago Press
Winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize
Literary Translations
The Star-Spangled Brand
By Marcelo Morales
Translation and commentary by Kristin Dykstra
Veliz Books
Jigs & Lures
By Reina María Rodríguez
Translation and commentary by Kristin Dykstra
Alliteration Publishing
13 moons 13 (13 lunas 13)
By Tina Escaja
Translation by Kristin Dykstra
Winner of the 2023 Gold Medal for Best Nonfiction Book Translation, Spanish to English, International Latino Book Awards
Nueva York Poetry Press
The Lady of Elche (La dama de Elche)
Poems by Amanda Berenguer
Translation and Commentary by Kristin Dykstra
Berenguer’s poems from the 1980s in The Lady of Elche are, like the unburied sculpture of her title, a wonder, an enigma, and a warning.
The Winter Garden Photograph (La foto del invernadero)
By Reina María Rodríguez
Translation by Kristin Dykstra with Nancy Gates Madsen
Commentary by Kristin Dykstra; interview by Rosa Alcalá
Winner of the 2020 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Ugly Duckling Presse
Materia Prima
An anthology of poetry by Amanda Berenguer
Edited by Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson
Multiple translators
Ugly Duckling Presse
Cubanology
By Omar Pérez
Translation and commentary by Kristin Dykstra
The World as Presence (El mundo como ser)
A bilingual edition
Prose poetry by Marcelo Morales
Translation and commentary by Kristin Dykstra
Longlisted for the National Translation Award
The University of Alabama Press
Other Letters to Milena (Otras cartas a Milena)
Prose and poetry by Reina María Rodríguez
Translation and commentary by Kristin Dykstra
The University of Alabama Press
Breach of Trust (Abuso de confianza)
By Ángel Escobar
Translation and commentary by Kristin Dykstra
The University of Alabama Press
The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) [El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales)]
By Juan Carlos Flores
Translations and Commentary by Kristin Dykstra
The University of Alabama Press
Did You Hear About the Fighting Cat? (Oíste hablar del gato de pelea?)
Poems by Omar Pérez
Translations and Commentary by Kristin Dykstra
Shearsman Books
Something of the Sacred (Algo de lo sagrado)
Poems by Omar Pérez
Translations by Kristin Dykstra, with Roberto Tejada
Factory School
Time’s Arrest (La detención del tiempo)
Poems by Reina María Rodríguez
Translations by Kristin Dykstra, Afterword by Roberto Tejada
Factory School
Violet Island and Other Poems
Selected Poems by Reina María Rodríguez
Translations by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen
Afterword by Kristin Dykstra
Green Integer
Fine Art Editions
The Race (La carrera)
By Omar Pérez
Translated by Kristin Dykstra
Linocuts by Ramón Vargas
Red Hydra Press
Scaffoldings (Andamios)
By Rito Ramón Aroche
Translated by Kristin Dykstra
Linocuts by Alejandro Sainz
Parallel Editions
Catch and Release
Fine Art Edition
Seven poems by Reina María Rodríguez from her 2006 book, Catch and Release
Translations by Kristin Dykstra
Linocuts by Alejandro Sainz
Parallel Editions